Pythagoras's Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender War by Margaret Wertheim

Pythagoras's Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender War

Margaret Wertheim

320 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science challenging informative slow-paced
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Here is a fresh, astute social and cultural history of physics, from ancient Greece to our own time. From its inception, Margaret Wertheim shows, physics has been an overwhelmingly male-dominated activity; she argues that gender inequity in physic...

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